Trump Keeps Right On Trampling

That’s what my old man used to say. Damndest thing ever I seen. At the very least, three or four times a day. I guess he was easy to impress.

By Monte Dutton (John Clark photo)

One of the beauties of baseball is that, no matter how many games I watch, at an astonishing degree of regularity, I see something I’ve never seen before. Earlier this year, in Birmingham, Alabama, I watched the leadoff batter of the homestanding Barons single, steal second, and get picked off that base. The next batter singled, stole second, and got picked off that base. Second base, not first, both times. Both pickoffs occurred over a span of five pitches. I’ve never seen it before. It would be hard to look up. How many times has it happened in history? Five times? A hundred times? A thousand times? Only once while I was watching, or, maybe, I saw it another time and wasn’t paying attention.

Nothing I’ve seen in a baseball game matches my astonishment at what Donald Trump says every day.

Among the tiny percentage of words said by Trump that are actually true are those in which he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his supporters would vote for him anyway.

I believe that. I have no choice.

Trump picked a fight with the Pope! He said John McCain wasn’t a hero because he got caught. He poked fun at a handicapped person.

He said that, to stop the terrorists, we have to kill their families — their women, their children — because the terrorists do that to us. Inexplicably, this has not prevented preachers of the Gospel from flocking to his side. It’s like they’re saying, Hey, the Devil is evil. No fair. To fight the Devil, Jesus has to be evil, too.

If it weren’t for bad words, he’d have no words at all.

It’s the damndest thing ever I seen. I don’t say that every day like my daddy did.

(Steven Novak design)(Jennifer Skutelsky cover design)

I’ve written four novels and a collection of short stories. I’ve also written a number of books about sports, mostly about NASCAR. You can find most of them here.

(Jennifer Skutelsky cover design)

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I’ve written a crime novel about the corrosive effects of patronage and the rise and fall of a powerful politician and his dysfunctional family, Forgive Us Our Trespasses.